Sophie Buxton

Dream Apocalypse

Micro-residency at the Self Publishing Lab & Priestman Gallery
Sunderland University, March 2023.

 Dream Apocalypse is a container for my hopes and fears of living through the climate crisis, and a ground in which I created new montages of materials, facts and fictions, using riso. Through a  process of layering and collation, combining colour, text and drawing I quickly built up images which suggest a sense of dislocation but also hope. 
I used my work to create open discursive spaces for students within the lab and gallery, to share ideas of what it means to be living at a time of climate crisis, and explore their relationships to it.   

These images were made  in a collaborative session with students at ​the Print Club.  

Many thanks to the staff at Sunderland University Fine Art department for hosting this residency, and to the students who took part in Dream Apocalypse.